Articles Tagged with ''state of the industry''

During 2016, supply levels are returning to normal after the disruptions in 2015 caused by the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

U.S. chicken consumption remains high, with 2016 levels surpassing those from the previous two years.

As global demand continues to rise, there are significant future opportunities for U.S. pork exports, which are projected to total 20 percent of domestic production in 2016.

Through early September, 2016 has been a great year for both the fresh and processed pork sales.

Every decision about investing checkoff dollars into beef promotion, research, education, information and foreign-market development aimed at building consumer demand for beef is directly tied to long-range planning.

The question is: “Who is going to flinch first?” Dan Basse, president of AgResource Co., said that’s what he and his team ponder when looking at this “plateau” phase in the agriculture markets.

The meat and poultry industry is much healthier in 2016 than it was in 2015.

There are approximately 80,000 farmers and ranchers in the U.S. that produce 100 million pounds of lamb each year for the U.S. market.

Despite the challenges of a difficult economic cycle, American veal producers continue to make progress in animal housing.

Turkey’s resilience and wide geographic dispersal has maintained the supply reliability of turkey meat nationally, despite a leading production region suffering disproportionate losses to highly pathogenic avian influenza in spring 2015.